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SOME AMAZING FINDINGS THAT HAD GIVEN CRYPTOZOOLOGY
SOME RESPECT IN THE SCIENTIFIC ARENA.
MEGAMOUTH SHARK
The megamouth shark was unknown to man until 1976, when the
US navy caught a 1 ton shark . Oddly though, it is
one of the world's most largest and widely distributed species
of
shark. The megamouth shark has unique jaws and is housed
within its own taxonomic family. Many say its was the greatest
marine discovery of all time.
PECCARI
In 1974, Dr Ralph Wetzel made a sensational
resurrection when he discovered a living
poplation of
peccaries in the Gran Chaco area in South
America
which overlaps, Boliva, Paraguay, and
Argentina.
The largest of three modern day species,
the peccary
was traditionally known only from Ice
Age fossils.
Haemopis caeca leech
Romanian biologist Serban Sarbu and several
colleagues from Bucharest's Speleological Institute
became the first scientists to ever penetrate the
Stygian subterranean system of grottoes called the
Movile Cave. In 1986 they discovered the 'lost world'
teeming with new species never seen before by
mankind. The Movile Cave, Is sited 82ft (25m) below
Dobrogea, near southeastern Romania's Casimcea
Valley. At least 33 new speices have been found,
including the Haemopis caeca leech (pictured with
Dr Sarbu), 5 spiders, 2 springtails, 4 beetles, 4
woodlice, 3 pseudo-scorpions, and 1 acarine. Incredibly
Movile Caves air and water is suffused with hydrogen
sulphide which is normally poisonous to living things.
SAGUI
A local man from Manaus, in
the Brazilian rainforest discovered
a new speices of monkey in
April 1996. Dubbed as the
black-headed sagui dwarf it
is the second smallest
monkey species in the world.
An average adult measures only 4
inches and weighs around 5.6
ounces. The smallest known
monkey is the pygmy marmoset,
with an average size of 3.6
inches and weight of 6.6 ounces.
More information and the
orignal report is available
at the CNN webpage.
POTOROO
The potoroo, (pictured left)
a famous extinct species of rat
kangaroo made an astonishing
comeback during 1994,
having been long given up by
zoology as irrevocalby lost.
The creature was last reported
in 1869, until a pair was
captured in a nature reserve
on Western Australia's
southern coast.
MORE TO COME SOON.
CRIPTOZOOLOGY.COM 1997. 98.
